Comment by foltik

It’s certainly hard to detect in isolation, but the thing that gives it away is the comment history.

All the AI acounts I’ve seen repeatedly post the exact same cookie cutter top-level comments over and over again. Typically some vapid observation followed by an obviously forced question serving as engagement bait. The paragraphs and sentence structure even looks visually similar across comments when you scroll down the history page.

Just look at a few of these accounts and you’ll easily be able to recognize AI posts on your own.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=naomi_kynes https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=aplomb1026 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=decker_dev https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CloakHQ https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=coolcoder9520 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ptak_dev https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=oliver_dr https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=agent5ravi https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yuyuqueen https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=entrustai https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=coder_decoder https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mergisi https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=JEONSEWON https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=devonkelley https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=iam_circuit https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=robotmem https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=RovaAI https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ajstars https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=priowise https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Yanko_11 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zacklee-aud https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shablulman https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=octoclaw https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zacklee1988 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bhekanik https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=webpolis https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=claud_ia https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=david_iqlabs https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yamarldfst https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=julius_eth_dev https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vexnull https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idorozin